Listening differently: What REFLECT taught my community
June 25, 2025
The release of Carbon Tanzania’s 2025 Annual Report marks a significant milestone in our fifteen-year journey of channelling global carbon finance directly to the stewards of Tanzania’s forests. While our impact has always been rooted in community partnership, this report highlights the transition toward the institutional maturity required to lead in a maturing carbon market. Over the last 12 months, we have intentionally strengthened our internal systems and defined best-practices, allowing us to protect over 678,000 hectares of forest and channel a cumulative $20.4 million in community revenue with transparency.
Our forest protection efforts currently address 12 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This is evidenced by 728,527 tonnes of CO2 equivalent verified as carbon credits, direct benefits for over 333,000 people, and the protection of 17 threatened species. Furthermore, our operations now support 470 individuals working in forest conservation.
Moving forward, we are adopting next-generation methodologies like Verra’s VM0048. This ensures that the growth of our portfolio, which aims for a 2.5x increase in capacity by 2035, is backed by the scientific rigor and operational excellence that our partners and the planet demand.
Ultimately, we believe that high-integrity data must be matched by human insight. We remain deeply committed to listening directly to our community partners to understand how carbon revenue transforms their daily lives, from reducing financial stress and paying school fees to providing feelings of safety and land security.
Read our 2025 Annual Report to learn how we are strengthening the operational foundations necessary to scale our community-led model and protect Tanzania’s vital ecosystems for decades to come.
Director of Operations
David is a dedicated conservationist with both an excellent academic record and extensive field experience in designing and implementing practical conservation and agricultural project work. At Carbon Tanzania, he oversees the highly technical aspects of project operations, while also using his interpersonal and language skills to communicate the many and complex details of our projects to our partner communities and field collaborators.
Director of Finance
Alpha is a Certified Public Accountant with a degree in accountancy and finance. Alpha is responsible for overseeing all the finance and accounting systems both within the company and across our projects. Alpha’s work with the communities also ensures that they are able to plan the financial management and implement best practices in the allocation of the revenues from their successful natural resource protection activities.
Co-founder
Marc oversees project operations, often in the field as well as from the Arusha base, and leads the search to find and develop new areas where our approach can deliver lasting results. As a co-founder of Carbon Tanzania, maintaining a connection with the landscapes in which Carbon Tanzania works is critical to Marc.
Co-founder
After an established career as one of East Africa’s leading professional outdoor, trekking and wildlife guides, Jo co-founded Carbon Tanzania. Jo’s focus is to ensure business sustainability through financial management and sales, and to ensure that the company has the financial capacity to scale when opportunities arise.